2016年12月14日，“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程启动会在清华x-lab场地活动区举行。
清华大学经济管理学院院长钱颖一教授（左二）、党委书记高建教授（右二）、清华x-lab执行主任毛东辉（左一）与Facebook公司企业发展部副总裁石峰博士（Dr.Vaughan Smith）（右一）合影留念。
Facebook公司企业发展部副总裁石峰博士（Dr.Vaughan Smith）、清华大学经济管理学院院长钱颖一教授、党委书记高建教授、经管学院创新创业与战略系副教授及“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程中方召集人李纪珍、清华x-lab执行主任毛东辉、学生代表、课程助教及相关工作人员出席本次启动会。
经管学院创新创业与战略系副教授及“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程中方召集人李纪珍主持课程启动会。
课程启动会由清华x-lab主办，李纪珍主持。李纪珍对前来参加启动会的师生表示了热烈的欢迎，并为大家介绍了到场的嘉宾。之后他对于下学期将由清华x-lab与Facebook公司合办的“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程予以简要介绍。这门2学分的课程将在2017年春季学期开设，所有清华在校学生均可选课。他将与Facebook的多位演讲嘉宾，以及来自相关领域的本土嘉宾一起，带领同学们对硅谷热门的创新创业话题进行讨论。
清华大学经济管理学院院长钱颖一教授致欢迎辞。
钱颖一院长致欢迎辞。他向在场的同学们介绍了这场本次课程设立的缘起，特别介绍了清华大学经济管理学院顾问委员会顾问委员、Facebook公司创始人兼首席执行官马克•扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）与清华经管学院在过去三年间的几次“机缘”，对Facebook公司给予清华大学经济管理学院及清华x-lab长期以来的大力支持表示感谢。钱院长希望此门课程能够使清华学子接触到来自硅谷和中国最前沿的科技，也将鼓励清华学子以全球化的视角去思考未来发展。钱院长相信此门课程的开设将是Facebook与清华经管学院友好合作关系的里程碑，并预祝本次课程取得圆满成功。
Facebook公司企业发展部副总裁石峰博士（Dr.Vaughan Smith）做嘉宾发言。
Facebook公司企业发展部副总裁石峰博士做了嘉宾发言。他向大家介绍了Facebook公司与清华x-lab合作，在清华经管学院开设“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程的初衷，并且希望这门课对清华大学乃至全中国的学生产生一定的影响。同时，他向在场的同学们介绍了Facebook公司的企业文化，包括志存高远(aiming high)、勇于创新（making innovations）、及迅速行动(moving fast)等。随后，石峰博士谈到，人工智能（Artificial Intelligence）和虚拟现实（Virtual Reality）技术都将成为Facebook公司目前及长期的着力焦点。最后，石峰博士认为，Facebook未来还有很广阔的发展空间，现阶段的成就仅仅是整体目标的1%，对于创新的追求将永无止境。
演讲环节结束后，石峰博士接受了现场学生代表的提问。刘彦声询问了Facebook社区幸福指数普遍较高的原因，石峰博士对这一点感到非常骄傲。他认为每个人都有改变世界的愿望，所以为每位员工创造机会实现自己的价值，是提高员工幸福感的根本原因。肖子燕询问“您认为Facebook与其他公司最大的不同是什么？”石峰博士表示，Facebook的特别之处主要体现在强调以人为本的企业文化，因而他们所雇用的员工也是真正关注与他人建立连接的，这正是Facebook产品成功的秘诀。刘文睿问到，如何看待对于新创企业“失败乃成功之母”这句话，石峰博士认为，失败不是目标，真正的目标是从失败中学习和成长。正如Facebook 的企业文化中提倡快速（Fast），那么企业失败的次数越多，学习的进程也就越快。
钱颖一院长与石峰博士代表清华经管学院与Facebook公司互赠礼物。
钱颖一院长与石峰博士代表清华经管学院与Facebook公司互赠礼物。钱颖一院向石峰博士赠送寓意洞察的放大镜作为礼物，石峰博士回赠钱颖一院长由硅谷最早一批互联网先驱人物本·霍洛维茨（Ben Horowitz）总结自己近20余年的创业、管理和投资经验所著的《创业维艰》（《The Hard Thing About Hard Things》）。
到场同学还获赠印有Facebook标志的红色文化衫。活动最后，石峰博士、钱颖一院长与到场师生亲切合影留念。
2017年春季学期，来自美国的全球性科技巨头Facebook公司将在清华大学经济管理学院开设一门2学分的全校性选修课程——《创新与创业：硅谷洞察》(课程编号：60510302)。所有清华在校学生均可选课。
“创新与创业：硅谷洞察”课程启动会活动现场。
课程由清华x-lab（清华x-空间，清华大学创意创新创业教育平台）与Facebook公司联合推出。清华经管学院创新创业与战略系副教授李纪珍老师应邀担任本次课程的中方教授。他将与来自Facebook的多位演讲嘉宾，以及多位来自各相关领域的本土嘉宾、创新创业导师，针对硅谷最热门的科技热点、创新创业话题，鼓励清华学子以全球视野着眼未来，通过体验式学习激发思想，点燃火花，帮助学生洞察美国硅谷最新的创新与创业实践，并结合已有的创新创业理论展开小组讨论，完善商业计划书，同时在双方嘉宾导师的指导下完成最终项目汇报展示。优胜者将有额外惊喜。
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Insights from Silicon Valley Course Announcement event kicks off
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Insights from Silicon Valley” Course Announcement event kicked off on December 14th, 2016 at Tsinghua x-lab x-space.
Dr. Vaughan Smith, Facebook VP of Corporate Development; Professor GAO Jiian, Secretary of CPC Committee, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (SEM) ; Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM; Associate Professor LI Jizhen, course coordinator from Chinese side and Associate Professor, Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Tsinghua SEM; MAO Donghui, Tsinghua x-lab Executive Director; student representatives, course teaching assistants and operation staff attended the event.
The event was hosted by Tsinghua x-lab and chaired by LI Jizhen. In the brief opening, he expressed a warm welcome to all attendees, and introduced Facebook guests present. He also gave a brief introduction to the course. This 2-credit course will be launched in the spring semester 2017, the course opens for sign-up to all enrolled students of Tsinghua University and is coordinated by Professor Li. Professor Li and a number of speakers from Facebook, as well as local guests from related fields, will lead the students to discuss the innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.
Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM delivered a welcome speech. He introduced the original intentions of setting up the course. In particular, he pointed out the affinity that Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook and a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM shares with Tsinghua SEM. He expressed his gratitude for Facebook’s continuous support to Tsinghua SEM and Tsinghua x-lab. Dean Qian hopes that the course will expose Tsinghua students with the latest development in science and technology from Silicon Valley as well as from China. It will encourage Tsinghua students to think about the future with a global perspective. Dean Qian believes that the course marks a new milestone in the Facebook and Tsinghua SEM collaborative relationship. Finally, Dean Qian wished the course a full success.
Afterwards, Dr. Vaughan Smith, Facebook VP of Corporate Development made a speech. He explained why Facebook would like to set up the course in Tsinghua SEM in cooperation with Tsinghua x-lab, and hoped the course would have a positive impact on the students of Tsinghua University and even in China. At the same time, He introduced Facebook’s corporate culture, including aiming high, making innovations, and moving fast. He also pointed out that Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality are parts of Facebook's current and next stage development. Finally, Dr. Vaughan Smith thinks that there is a vast space for Facebook to develop in the future. The achievements so far are only 1% of the overall goal, and the pursuit of innovation will not stop.
Later on, Dr. Vaughan Smith answered questions raised by the students present and teaching assistants. Liu Yansheng asked why Facebook’s campus has high levels of happiness among employees. Dr. Vaughan Smith is proud of this point, he believes that everyone has a desire to change the world, therefore giving each employee opportunities to realize their own value is the most important reason why Facebook has high levels of happiness. Xiao Ziyan asked, "In what way would you say is Facebook different from other technology companies?" Dr. Vaughan Smith said that Facebook is mainly based on people, so they want to hire employees who care about connecting people, this is the secret of Facebook products’ success. Liu Wenrui asked, how to understand the sentence "the secret of success is to make mistakes" for people in the early stage of entrepreneurship? Dr. Vaughan Smith believes that failure is not the real goal, the real goal is to learn from failure. Just as Facebook's corporate culture advocates “Fast”, the more times the enterprise fails, the faster the learning process will be.
Dean Qian and Dr. Vaughan Smith on behalf of Tsinghua SEM and Facebook exchanged gifts. Dean Qian presented a magnifying glass as a gift which metaphorizes insights to Dr. Vaughan Smith. Dr. Vaughan Smith presented a book “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” which was written by the first batch of Internet pioneer Ben Horowitz who summed up his nearly 20 years of entrepreneurship, management and investment experiences.
Facebook also prepared a red Facebook T-shirt for each student. After that, Dr. Vaughan Smith and Dean Qian also had a group picture together with all attendees.
Tsinghua x-lab and Facebook joint effort 2-credit course "Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Insights from Silicon Valley” will be launched in the spring semester 2017. The course opens for sign-up to all enrolled students of Tsinghua University and is coordinated by LI Jizhen, Associate Professor, Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Tsinghua SEM. It aims to boost students’ interest and ability in innovation and entrepreneurship by integrating guest speaker talks, academic sessions and team projects.
Guest speakers from Facebook, local guests from various related fields, together with Tsinghua SEM faculty will introduce to students the most popular science and technology hot spots and innovation and entrepreneurship topics from Silicon Valley, to encourage Tsinghua students to think about the future with a global perspective. Through experiential learning, students will get insights into Silicon Valley's latest innovation and entrepreneurial practices, discuss them in groups combining innovation and entrepreneurship theories, and improve their business plans. With the guidance of mentors from both sides, students will complete their final presentations and develop project demos. The final winners may expect surprise awards.
文 | 李雅文、郑安然、刘江、黄沛
